The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.
Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.
There are a lot of great players... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.
I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.
I was blessed that I got married early and had a good wife. That sort of kept me straight. Probably I would have been like Charlie Parker, you know, involved in drugs or alcohol or something like that if I hadn't had this stability.